Temporal homogenization of monthly radiosonde temperature data. Part II: Trends, sensitivities, and MSU comparison

Journal of Climate

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 241-262

  Lanzante, John R ^a   Klein, Stephen A ^a   Seidel, Dian J ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; RADIOSONDES; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

TEMPORAL HOMOGENIZATION;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; INSTRUMENTATION; RADIOSONDE;

EID: 0012646098     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0442(2003)016<0241:THOMRT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Brown, S., D. Parker, C. Folland, and I. Macadam, 2000: Decadal variability in the lower-tropospheric lapse rate. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 997-1000.
2. Christy, J., R. Spencer, and W. Braswell, 2000: MSU tropospheric temperatures: Dataset construction and radiosonde comparisons. J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 17, 1153-1170.
3. Christy, J., D. Parker, S. Brown, I. Macadam, M. Stendel, and W. Norris, 2001: Differential trends in tropical sea surface and atmospheric temperature since 1979. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 183-186.
4. Compagnucci, R., M. Salles, and P. Canziani, 2001: The spatial and temporal behavior of the lower stratospheric temperature over the Southern Hemisphere: The MSU view. Part I: Data, methodology, and temporal behavior. Int. J. Climatol., 21, 419-437.
5. Free, M., and Coauthors, 2002: Creating climate reference datasets: CARDS workshop on adjusting radiosonde temperature data for climate monitoring. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 83, 891-899.
6. Gaffen, D., 1996: A digitized metadata set of global upper-air station histories. NOAA Tech. Memo. ERL ARL-211, 38 pp.
7. Gaffen, D., B. Santer, J. Boyle, J. Christy, N. Graham, and R. Ross, 2000: Multi-decadal changes in the vertical temperature structure of the tropical troposphere. Science, 287, 1239-1241.
8. Hoerling, M., J. Hurrell, and T. Xu, 2001: Tropical origins for recent North Atlantic climate change. Science, 292, 90-92.
9. Houghton, J. T., Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noguer, P. J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell, and C. A. Johnson, Eds., 2001: Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis. Cambridge University Press, 881 pp.
10. Hurrell, J., S. Brown, K. Trenberth, and J. Christy, 2000: Comparison of the tropospheric temperatures from radiosondes and satellites: 1979-98. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 81, 2165-2177.
11. Lanzante, J., 1996: Resistant, robust and nonparametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: Theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data. Int. J. Climatol., 16, 1197-1226.
12. Lanzante, J., 1998: Correction to "Resistant, robust and nonparametric techniques for the analysis of climate data: Theory and examples, including applications to historical radiosonde station data." Int. J. Climatol., 18, 235.
13. Lanzante, J., S. Klein, and D. Seidel, 2003: Temporal homogenization of monthly radiosonde temperature data. Part I: Methodology. J. Climate, 16, 224-240.
14. Laurmann, J., and L. Gate, 1977: Statistical considerations in the evaluation of climatic experiments with atmospheric general circulation models. J. Atmos. Sci., 34, 1187-1199.
15. Luers, J., and R. Eskridge, 1998: Use of radiosonde temperature data in climate studies. J. Climate, 11, 1002-1019.
16. NRC, 2000: Reconciling Observations of Global Temperature Change. Panel on Reconciling Temperature Observations, National Academy Press, 85 pp.
17. Parker, D., M. Gordon, D. Cullum, D. Sexton, C. Folland, and N. Rayner, 1997: A new global gridded radiosonde temperature data base and recent temperature trends. Geophys. Res. Lett., 24, 1499-1502.
18. Santer, B., J. Hnilo, T. Wigley, J. Boyle, C. Doutriaux, M. Fiorino, D. Parker, and K. Taylor, 1999: Uncertainties in observationally based estimates of temperature change in the free atmosphere. J. Geophys. Res., 104 (D6), 6305-6333.
19. Santer, B., T. Wigley, J. Boyle, D. Gaffen, J. Hnilo, D. Nychka, D. Parker, and K. Taylor. 2000: Statistical significance of trends and trend differences in layer-average atmospheric temperature time series. J. Geophys. Res., 105 (D6), 7337-7356.
20. Shah, K., and D. Rind, 1995: Use ot microwave brightness temperatures with a general circulation model. J. Geophys. Res., 100 (D7), 13 841-13 874.
21. Shindell, D., R. Miller, G. Schmidt, and L. Pandolfo, 1999: Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse-gas forcing. Nature, 399, 452-455.
22. Siegel, S., and N. Castellan, 1988: Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences. McGraw-Hill, 399 pp.
23. Stendel, M., J. Christy, and L. Bengtsson, 2000: Assessing levels of uncertainty in recent temperature time series. Climate Dyn., 16, 587-601.
24. Stott, P., and S. Tett, 1998: Scale-dependent detection of climate change. J. Climate, 11, 3282-3294.
25. Stott, P., S. Tett, G. Jones, M. Allen, W. Ingram, and J. Mitchell, 2001: Attribution of twentieth century temperature change to natural and anthropogenic causes. Climate Dyn., 17, 1-21.
26. Trenberth, K., and J. Hurrell, 1994: Decadal atmosphere-ocean variations in the Pacific. Climate Dyn., 9, 303-319.
27. Zar, J., 1996: Biostatistical Analysis. Prentice-Hall, 662 pp.